New Yorker Covers for Halloween: Monsters, Real and Imagined

The cover of the October 31st issue this year features another of Barry Blitt's ingenious takes on the current Presidential campaign. But politics hasn't always excluded Halloween from the cover of The New Yorker. In 1941, a butler opens the door and finds Hitler trick-or-treating. The next year, Hitler is a witch flying ominously across the darkened sky. No matter what awful news the world may bring, come Halloween, it’s time for a few hours of escapism—even during an election year. Here is a selection of Halloween covers from over the decades: